Are You SERIOUS, KID?!?!?

I've dealt with a lot of kid shenanigans in my lifetime, but one of my students really takes the cake. She's a really great composer. She's made up a lot of great music and she plays by ear wonderfully. She has a very hard time with her music reading skills. Because of this I often record songs for her so she can hear them in order to help her play better. There's a lot of extra things here and there that make her a tad on the "entitled" side.

Sidenote: Don't you feel that this generation (Jr. High through college) should be dubbed "Gen Entitled"? I do.

So, as I'm teaching her in between her complaining about EVERYTHING under the sun, I mention that she needs to play a certain measure again because she didn't do the rhythm correctly. She mumbles this LOUDLY, "Well, you should have played it correctly on the recording then."

Me: Excuse me?
Her: Nothing
Me: EXCUSE ME?
Her: Nothing, I was just mumbling to myself.
Me: You need to work on THINKING before a disrespectful comment comes out of your mouth. Do you think you can do that?
Her: Maybe

I know that she's thinking literally here. She doesn't know if she'll actually be able to do that, so she says "maybe". OY!!!!!

So, I'm done at this point and I am EXTREMELY quiet during the rest of the lesson, lest I say something I'll regret. After, I have a chat with her dad. As we're talking she's giving both of us the "I'm killing you dead with my look" look.

I don't foresee these lessons lasting very much longer. We shall see!